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How Water Acummulation Tank in EnergyPlus

asked 2019-04-04 03:56:49 -0600

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updated 2019-04-05 11:24:43 -0600

Hello World!

I am trying to simulate a thermal solar energy system which is coupled with acummulation tanks for storage and absorption chiller for cooling loads in summer season and heater units for winter season in EnergyPlus.

However, I cannot find the Hot Water Storage System. As I found an answer for a problem which looks like my case, it is said that Boiler can be used as Hot Water Storage system with setting the heater capacity as zero.

However I need 2 Inlet and 2 Outlet Component (as heat exchanger), 1 inlet and outlet serves to heating the water inside the tank like a heating coil; the other inlet and outlet serves to demand side.

How can I add an acummulation tank into my model?

Thanks

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answered 2019-04-04 07:24:34 -0600

The water heaters can also be used as storage tanks. Both the WaterHeater:Mixed and WaterHeater:Stratified have 2 sets of inlet/outlet nodes. The flow through these nodes will be used to calculate the resulting tank temperature.

WaterHeater:Mixed,
 A14, \field Use Side Inlet Node Name
 A15, \field Use Side Outlet Node Name
 A16, \field Source Side Inlet Node Name
 A17, \field Source Side Outlet Node Name

WaterHeater:Stratified,
 A16, \field Use Side Inlet Node Name
 A17, \field Use Side Outlet Node Name
 A18, \field Source Side Inlet Node Name
 A19, \field Source Side Outlet Node Name
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Thanks @rraustad I will try it!

acme's avatar acme  ( 2019-04-05 07:37:55 -0600 )edit

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